Word: markers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Columbia settled to a 44, Harvard lowered their stroke to a 26, where they remained for the body of the race. The Lions couldn't maintain their cadence, eventually sagging to a 40, and at the halfway marker, the Crimson held a half-length lead...
...architect had been commissioned, $8,429 had been set aside for a huge chunk of Texas red granite, and last week the city fathers of Dallas approved the wording for a roadside marker at the spot where John F. Kennedy was assassinated...
...Many historic events have centered around this site," the marker will note. "The settlement of Dallas began in 1841 when John Neely Bryan's log cabin was built near by. The first legislature of the new state of Texas created Dallas County in 1846 with Dallas as the 'Seat of Justice.' In 1855 a toll bridge crossed the channel of the Trinity River at the west end of this plaza. Years later the river channel was moved one-half mile westward and confined between flood-control levees. Dallas was incorporated as a town...
...megaton H-bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just the same...
...Chris Marker, for example, has extended Godard's use of natural settings to its logical extreme, the poetic documentary. Marker's The Kimono Mystery and Jetee, both only sixty minutes along, use real people rather than actors and employ the cinema-verise technique of interviews rather than dialogue. Jacques Demy, on the other hand, painted his settings every conceivable color in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg to create a fairy-tale world. In contrast to Marker's candid sound-tracks, every word in Demy's film was sung to the tunes of Michel Legrand...